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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10243825, member: 2844&quot;]Very nice find nastina, a beauty. The stones look like almandine garnets to me, not amethysts.</p><p>I agree that it is a conversion, and I wonder if it was originally the front of a locket.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it might be Central-Eastern European, Romania (Transylvania), Hungary.</p><p>Google Siebenbürgen jewellery.</p><p>Siebenbürgen (= Seven Castles) is the old Austro-Hungarian name of Transylvania. It was a rich region where people wore a lot of jewellery, often ostentatious. This would be a more demure piece by Transylvanian standards.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>A lot of jewellery ended up in Austria and Germany when many ethnic Germans/Austrians had to leave after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It is only a small hop across the border from Germany to France.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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